2022-09 Mahuru Pānuitanga a te Tumuaki
Whāia e koe ki te iti kahurangi, kia tāpapa koe, he maunga tiketike
E mihi ana ahau ki a koutou. Nau mai hoki mai ki ētahi atu tumuaki e pūrongo ana.
Greetings all and welcome to a letter from the President.
This month I was too late with my President’s Kōrero for the Tararua Tramper, so rather than miss out I thought it would be worthwhile to provide a pūrongo by karere ā-rorohiko, email. I do enjoy our clubnights very much, and I’d like to mihi to our clubnight organisers Liz, Julia, and Elizabeth, who track down an amazing range of quality speakers and topics. And they do this week in, week out, and set up the invites, provide information on the website, and assist with online attendance.
Last clubnight we heard from Dave Lowe, who contributed toward the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for which the IPCC was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 along with Al Gore. It was a very valuable talk and a call to action.
Before that we had the photo competition, a highlight of the year, where we saw great photos from club members of places we love, with excellent commentary thanks to photographer James Gilberd.
Notably, we have had two movie evenings in recent weeks. Paul McCredie’s “We Don’t Usually Have Ice Creams” award-winning film (the Spirit of Adventure Award at the 2022 New Zealand Mountain Film & Book Festival) about our Wednesday trampers, with ice creams, can you believe it.
Then Maddy Whittaker’s “Traversing the Night” presentation of her award-winning film “Traversing the Night" of an epic alpine traverse of the Southern Alps with the Alpine Club joining us and hosting the meeting, and with Maddy joining us from Whenua Hou before and after the screening.
Our social committee, you know who you are, does a stalwart job to host the online meetings despite the occasional travails and pitfalls of the technology. Ngā mihi nui. Online attendance is one way we provide an opportunity for our club to be together and I am proud that we have continued to hold these since the first online meeting was held early during the first COVID lockdown.
I would be remiss if I did not ask for more volunteers for our social committee, general committee, and assistance with our Treasurer role, and Huts and Tracks role.
Ka mutu, ko Mahuru Māori. Mahuru Māori is a great opportunity for everyone to kōrero, speak, te reo Māori. The wero, challenge, is to speak more Māori. Perhaps as a beginner just starting with greetings and farewells in Māori, then an hour a day, half the day, or all day every day.
Nāku noa
Simon Davis
Tumuaki o te rōpū hīkoi Tararua